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0120 <h4 class="subsubsection">16.2.5.2 <code>\bigl</code>, <code>\bigr</code>, etc.</h4>
0121 
0122 <p>Synopsis, one of:
0123 </p>
0124 <div class="example">
0125 <pre class="example">\bigl<var>delimiter1</var> ... \bigr<var>delimiter2</var>
0126 \Bigl<var>delimiter1</var> ... \bigr<var>delimiter2</var>
0127 \biggl<var>delimiter1</var> ... \biggr<var>delimiter2</var>
0128 \Biggl<var>delimiter1</var> ... \Biggr<var>delimiter2</var>  
0129 </pre></div>
0130 
0131 <p>(as with <code>\bigl[...\bigr]</code>; strictly speaking they need not be
0132 paired, see below), or one of:
0133 </p>
0134 <div class="example">
0135 <pre class="example">\bigm<var>delimiter</var>
0136 \Bigm<var>delimiter</var>
0137 \biggm<var>delimiter</var>
0138 \Biggm<var>delimiter</var>
0139 </pre></div>
0140 
0141 <p>(as with <code>\bigm|</code>), or one of:
0142 </p>
0143 <div class="example">
0144 <pre class="example">\big<var>delimiter</var>
0145 \Big<var>delimiter</var>
0146 \bigg<var>delimiter</var>
0147 \Bigg<var>delimiter</var>
0148 </pre></div>
0149 
0150 <p>(as with <code>\big[</code>).
0151 </p>
0152 <p>Produce manually-sized delimiters.  For delimiters that are
0153 automatically sized see&nbsp;<a href="_005cleft-_0026-_005cright.html#g_t_005cleft-_0026-_005cright">\left &amp; \right</a>).
0154 </p>
0155 <p>This produces slightly larger outer vertical bars.
0156 </p>
0157 <div class="example">
0158 <pre class="example">  \bigl| |x|+|y| \bigr|
0159 </pre></div>
0160 
0161 <p>The commands above are listed in order of increasing size.  You can use
0162 the smallest size such as <code>\bigl...\bigr</code> in a paragraph without
0163 causing LaTeX to spread the lines apart.  The larger sizes are meant
0164 for displayed equations.
0165 </p>
0166 <p>See <a href="Delimiters.html#Delimiters">Delimiters</a> for a list of the common delimiters.  In the family of
0167 commands with &lsquo;<samp>l</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>r</samp>&rsquo;, <var>delimiter1</var> and
0168 <var>delimiter2</var> need not be the same.
0169 </p>
0170 <p>The &lsquo;<samp>l</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>r</samp>&rsquo; commands produce open and close delimiters
0171 that insert no horizontal space between a preceding atom and the
0172 delimiter, while the commands without &lsquo;<samp>l</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>r</samp>&rsquo; insert some
0173 space (because each delimiter is set as an ordinary variable).  Compare
0174 these two.
0175 </p>
0176 <div class="example">
0177 <pre class="example">\begin{tabular}{l}
0178   \(\displaystyle \sin\biggl(\frac{1}{2}\biggr) \)  \\  % good
0179   \(\displaystyle \sin\bigg(\frac{1}{2}\bigg)  \)   \\  % bad
0180 \end{tabular}
0181 </pre></div>
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0183 <p>The traditional typographic treatment is on the first line.  On the
0184 second line the output will have some extra space between the
0185 <code>\sin</code> and the open parenthesis.
0186 </p>
0187 <p>Commands without &lsquo;<samp>l</samp>&rsquo; or&nbsp;&lsquo;<samp>r</samp>&rsquo; do give correct spacing in
0188 some circumstances, as with this large vertical line
0189 </p>
0190 <div class="example">
0191 <pre class="example">\begin{equation}
0192   \int_{x=a}^b x^2\,dx = \frac{1}{3} x^3 \Big|_{x=a}^b
0193 \end{equation}
0194 </pre></div>
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0198 
0199 <p>(many authors would replace <code>\frac</code> with the <code>\tfrac</code> command
0200 from the <samp>amsmath</samp> package), and as with this larger slash.
0201 </p>
0202 <div class="example">
0203 <pre class="example">\begin{equation}
0204   \lim_{n\to\infty}\pi(n) \big/ (n/\log n) = 1
0205 \end{equation}
0206 </pre></div>
0207 
0208 <p>Unlike the <code>\left...\right</code> pair (see <a href="_005cleft-_0026-_005cright.html#g_t_005cleft-_0026-_005cright">\left &amp; \right</a>), the
0209 commands here with &lsquo;<samp>l</samp>&rsquo; and&nbsp;&lsquo;<samp>r</samp>&rsquo; do not make a group.
0210 Strictly speaking they need not be matched so you can write something
0211 like this.
0212 </p>
0213 <div class="example">
0214 <pre class="example">\begin{equation}
0215   \Biggl[ \pi/6 ] 
0216 \end{equation}
0217 </pre></div>
0218 
0219 <p>The commands with &lsquo;<samp>m</samp>&rsquo; are for relations, which are in the middle of
0220 formulas, as here.
0221 </p>
0222 <div class="example">
0223 <pre class="example">\begin{equation}
0224   \biggl\{ a\in B \biggm| a=\sum_{0\leq i&lt;n}3i^2+4 \biggr\}
0225 \end{equation}  
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